COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - James Neal scored three times and had two assists, and Sidney Crosby scored the go-ahead goal and set up two other tallies to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins past the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-3 on Sunday night.Chris Kunitz added his 21st goal and two assists, and Jeff Zatkoff made 25 saves for the Penguins, who have won all four meetings with Columbus this season.Neal scored twice on the power play, including his third goal of the night and 14th of the season with 2:27 left - giving him a career-high five points.Brandon Dubinsky, Corey Tropp and Nikita Nikitin scored for the Blue Jackets before their biggest home crowd of the season, 18,871. Nikitin also had an assist.SABRES 2, CAPITALS 1, SOBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Ryan Miller made 49 saves to carry Buffalo to a shootout win over Washington.Drew Stafford netted Buffalo's goal in regulation, and Steve Ott scored the lone shootout goal in the sixth round as the Sabres improved to 5-0-1 in their last six home games after starting 3-12-1 there.Miller stopped all six Washington shootout attempts.Philipp Grubauer made 16 saves for Washington, and Troy Brouwer scored the Capitals' only goal. Alex Ovechkin recorded 12 shots, but failed to earn a point.Washington had the first 12 shots on goal, and with 13:52 gone, Miller stopped Eric Fehr from point-blank range to keep the Capitals off the board. Buffalo finally put a shot on Grubauer with 4:23 left in the first. Matt D'Agostini's odd-angle snap shot was met with a loud cheer from the home crowd.PANTHERS 4, CANADIENS 1SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - Brian Campbell, Aleksander Barkov and Dmitry Kulikov all scored in Florida's win over Montreal.Sean Bergenheim added an empty-net goal with 17 seconds left. Tom Gilbert had two assists. Kulikov's goal was his first in 28 games.Scott Clemmensen stopped 21 shots for the Panthers, who broke a three-game losing streak and beat Montreal for the second time this month. Clemmensen is 8-1 against the Canadiens.Brandon Prust scored and Peter Budaj made 21 saves for Montreal, which lost for the first time in three games.The Canadiens had two goals disallowed.BLUES 3, STARS 2, OTDALLAS (AP) - Kevin Shattenkirk scored a power-play goal 4:49 into overtime, giving St. Louis a victory over Dallas.Jaden Schwartz had a goal in his fifth straight game, and T.J. Oshie also scored for the Blues, who improved to 12-0-1 against Central Division opponents. Brian Elliott made 28 saves.Dallas overcame a 2-0 deficit with second-period goals by Jamie Benn and Ryan Garbutt.Schwartz opened the scoring on a power play at 2:41 of the first.St. Louis scored off a Stars mistake at 5:12 of the second when Oshie picked up the puck after Kevin Connauton whiffed on a pass in his end.

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